Los Angeles is about to launch a one-year scooter pilot that collects trip data. Japanese inventor Seiichi Miyake made cities more accessible to people who are visually impaired. More US cities are ending their recycling programs after China stopped purchasing their recyclable materials. Keep reading…

Why some people who care about housing don't like the term “YIMBY.” Lots of US developments look the same — here's how we can make them more creative. Cities are about to get hotter, but won't all feel the effects of climate change the same way. Keep reading…

Amtrak is a valuable resource for the transportation ecosystem – especially in the Northeast – but few people know that. Opening its data could help Amtrak tell its story and provide context for delays and service disruptions, creating transparency that could build support for the system. While Amtrak is working towards this, its data isn’t publicly available yet. Keep reading…

Paris is closing its streets to cars for a day to show what the city is like without them. Humorist and author David Sedaris writes about the things he's seen walking around different countries. What happens when transit agencies spy on their riders? Keep reading…

Ride-hailing services like Uber, Lyft, and Via have grown meteorically since launching just a few years ago. Meanwhile, transit ridership nationwide is declining, and some studies posit a direct connection. As a result, many transit supporters have sharply criticized these services. Some fears are warranted, but ride-hailing is also offering people a valuable transportation service. Keep reading…

Cities have required taxis to give logs of their rides to regulators for a long time. New York, Toronto, Chicago, Seattle, and others ask for taxi-like data from ride-hailing companies such as Uber, Lyft, and Via. Now, DC might join them. However, it won't follow through on an earlier proposal to encourage carpooling on these ride-hailing services. Keep reading…

Back in October, we added dockless bikeshare to our app, Transit. With new bikeshare operators popping up all across America, we wanted to make it easier to find the nearest bike without switching between multiple apps. Keep reading…

Transit ridership has been falling nationwide, but Washington's metro ridership has fallen significantly even compared to other systems. For a long time, Metrorail had long had the second-highest ridership of any of the country’s 13 heavy rail rapid-transit systems. Keep reading…

There are big issues facing Metro, and we need serious reform and commitment to dedicated funding in order to maintain the system into the future. While that's going on, you can help make data about on-time performance a bit more accessible by participating in this initiative. Keep reading…

Next week, we’re launching a site for riders to share their personal on-time scores over the course of three to six months. Not only will you be doing your fellow riders a solid by lending your data to a publicly accessible database, you’ll also get a chance to set personalized on-time performance targets, and maybe even steal a spot on the leaderboard for best (or worst) scores. Keep reading…

In New York, a high court says a transportation agency that didn't fix dangerous streets must pay damages to a child hit by a driver. Dayton, Ohio is struggling, partly because it tore down a lot of its old buildings to avoid higher vacancy rates. Uber is making some of its data more available to the public. Check out what's happening around the country in transportation, land use, and other related areas! Keep reading…

Those aren’t bridges — they’re graphs of how many people enter and exit each Metro station for each quarter of an hour. Reddit user BioNrd created the image using Metro’s October 2014 data, which the agency recently made available.
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Planners in Boston, and eventually, regular residents will be able to analyze patterns of where and when people take Uber. The ride-hailing service has announced that it will give Boston data files listing all of the trips people have taken, with the locations anonymized to only show the ZIP code where they start and stop.
Cities already collect this kind of information from taxis,… Keep reading…